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Demanding more for nursing across the UK
Our Chief Nurse Professor Nicola Ranger updates members on the action being taken to improve the rights and working conditions for nursing staff across the UK.
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The highlight of my student career
Heather Massie, former student member of the RCN Trade Union Committee, reflects on her experience and encourages current nursing students to seize the opportunity.
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Urgent investment in the nursing workforce needed as waiting lists look set to soar
Patients will only get the treatment they deserve when there are enough nursing staff to care for them, the RCN says.
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Health Secretary’s stance on diversity roles is ‘playing politics’, RCN says
Steve Barclay’s instruction to NHS managers to stop recruiting to diversity and inclusion roles creates ‘false division’, threatens staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
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Mental health parity: 'It feels like a losing battle'
Nursing staff raise alarm over mental health care inequality, saying it’s got worse since the pandemic and governments have failed to address the issue.
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‘Divisive’ rise in costs for overseas nursing staff will deepen NHS staffing crisis
We’ve written to the Home Secretary to condemn the planned increase in costs for overseas health workers and nursing students coming to the UK.
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Israel and Gaza conflict: all parties must respect and protect access to health care
The RCN stands with other global health organisations to condemn every attack on health care workers and their patients
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Sexual harassment in health care: ‘We can’t have slogans, we’ve got to have action’
RCN tells MPs how sexual misconduct affects nursing staff in the NHS workforce, during evidence session in Parliament.
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Latest UCAS figures: acceptances onto UK nursing courses down 13%
The RCN says the UK government has ‘stumbled at the first hurdle’ in fulfilling student recruitment promises set out in its NHS workforce plan in England.
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CQC ballot: members vote to say pay award is acceptable
Members employed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have voted on their latest 2022-23 pay award, with the majority voting to say it’s acceptable. This means ongoing industrial action at the CQC will end.
